[mdlug] UEFI Booting

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 22:12 -0500, A. Zimmer wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 22:04:19 -0500
> Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think Grub needs a small special partition at the beginning of the disk
> > for UEFI.  It's been a while since I set up a UEFI system so I can't
> > remember the details.
> > 
> 
> That's not the issue here.  At this time I am not interested in booting.
> I only want to be able to read/write/format GPT disks from my current
> Linux system which resides on an MBR disk.
> Can this be done?

I'm pretty certain it can - my openSUSE boxes do this.

> It seems that it cannot as a kernel compiled with CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
> cannot access MBR formatted disks.

Why are you building a kernel?  UEFI is supported by every mainstream
distribution.

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